Hello my friends. I'm learning how to use daz3d for a game I have planned. I have only the resources that came with the installation of the software, so i have genesis 2, 3 and 8. I wish to ask you guys what do you recomend for me to buy (I wish to spent around $100, i can go a bit further). I gave a look at the shop of daz3d and rendenrotica but i got overwelmed by the possibilities.

I believe the most usefull products would be:

1 - Body/Face Morphs -
that way i can create my own characters instead of buying from the store.

2 - something to improve the face posing of the model -
the vanilla sliders are extremely limitated. I'm only using it for learning purposes.

3- Genitalia
well, 2 manequins humping eachother is no fun so i gess it is a must have. Perhaps there is some variation here

4 - clothing -
Perhaps in bundles so i can save some monney for other things.

Those questions apply to both male and female models.

I know I may sound a bit lazy but I'm really looking for my own answers I just want to start a discussion about those topics to make more solid decisions for my projects.

hi, the place to start is, what kind of art do you want to create? if you want to create stories with specific characters then you should maybe write down your ideas for the characters, their settings, and so on and then go shopping for products that fit that. for instance when i was putting together La Mouette Noire i did not buy a lot of scifi props!

basically imagine your finished product and work backwards! if you have some specific ideas i can point out some vendors that might have what you want, i work with V4.2 so i can't be too specific about Genesis products but a lot of good vendors have made the jump to Genesis!

Thank you for your reply eyeteeth. I have basically two ideas in my head but all of them will have sex and snuff/guro.

- The life of a whore:
The player will control a girl thats going through some rough times. As the girl ventures in the night she may face dangers. This would be a sandbox game with rpg elements, like a sandbox base where I could add rpg stories as development progresses.

-I have no idea for a name yet xD
This game is a medieval fantasy setting where you take control of a nation and has to administer it. For that you would have to hire subordinates and put them to work where their skill you be more qualified and as times passes you would have to give them errands at witch they could succeed or fail.

But, I did not think about what characters I would use in either project. I don't know what body to buy or if I should stick to the genesis 3 and just buy the morphs and expression sliders. I wish to make as beautifull characters, my own characters, like you do Eyeteeth

I have another question. As i said before, the expressions from the vanilla daz3d are quite limited. I'm thinking on buying "Genesis 3 Female Expressions" in the hopes i'll be able be more free to bake my own expressions like excitement or disgust.

If I do buy it from the daz3d shop will I have more control over the individual parts of the face?

I'm thinking on sticking with gen3 for male and female buying this itens:

have you already purchased Genesis 3? if not, i would recommend purchasing Genesis 8 instead (i don't know why they skipped 4-7). Genesis 8 is the latest technology, and it is backwards compatible with older figures but older figures are not always forward compatible with newer products.

i have never worked with Genesis so i can't make specific recommendations, however for V4.2 the vendor Godin has always created very good facial morphs and expressions. if you are looking for an expression pack (and you go with Genesis 8) i would recommend his https://www.daz3d.com/100-must-have-expr...8-female-s

Model like I would advice you to stay away from Genesis and Genesis 2, Genesis 3 & 8 are less stress on the systems and more versatile. Personally I use Genesis 3 and quite happy with it.

As for more versatility face and body styles I would suggest you check Zev0's shift bundle and get Genesis 3/8 "Female/Male Body Morphs" for body morphs and the Genesis 3/8 Female/Male Head Morphs and Thorne's Resource Kits. There are a lot of them so you can pick whichever you think you need / can afford.

The liquid pack is quit good, use it myself a lot.

For genitals I would check Meipe at Renderotica. They are the best (in my opinion) and easy to use/ajust.

Blowing your budget? That happen very fast. Wellcome to the world of 3D CG render

Woah, that's a lot of good advices. Thank you guys, thank you very much. I didn't expect such support.

Indeed, I started to realise now how much it will cost me. If I purchase everything I want I'd go broke as you guys said. Perhaps I should start buying simple stuff and gradually build up my collection. I found a new job that will help me with that but i'll have less time to do my project.

So, for now i'll just play with what I have and share a few renders. They will take a while to finish since i'm rendering in a baked potatoe.

Do you guys have anny idea why gen8's eyes are a bit granulated? My first attpents where even worse than that but I improved this issue improving the light positioning and removing the enviorment lights. Will I have to use photoshop to fix this? I wish there are ways to do it while in the rendering process.

I ain't a 100% certain about how the granulate happen since I have no experiance with Gen8 but those white points also appear be on the skin beside the right eye, the left side of the nose and where the lips meets. You said it got better after you adjusted the light so my guess is that it's something with the specular map of the skin surface.